THE NEWS HACK'S CREED:
I know more than you.
I make lots more money than you.
I'm smarter than you.
I'm sexier than you.
I appear on TV all the time.
I work ten minutes a day.
I rule the universe.
I'm going to live forever.
You are an idiot.
THE NEWS HACK'S CREED, No. 2:
A lie isn't a lie when it tells THE TRUTH.
THE NEWS HACK'S CREED, No. 3:
I've come to realize that the looseness of the journalistic life, the seeming laxity of the newsroom, is an illusion. Yes, there's informality and there's humor, but beneath the surface lies something deadly serious. It is a code. Sometimes the code is not even written down, but it is deeply believed in. And, when violated, it is enforced with tribal ferocity.
--JOHN "OMERTA" CARROLL.
THE NEWS HACK'S CREED, No. 4:
News isn't news when we don't report it.
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We well remember how the old Broadway had theater critics. Brooks Atkinson (respected enough to have a house named for him), Walter Kerr (ditto), Harold Clurman, Stanley Kauffmann, John Simon -- they were read, and believed. We forget that although now regarded as glorified gag writers Robert Benchley and Dorothy Parker wrote reviews; they could be tough. We imagine Branson has "shoppers". ("Broadway! The Star-Spangled Celebration is simply FANTASTIC!") As that crooked street in Midtown Manhattan increasingly apes THE REAL THING, so its revuers increasingly APE Branson shoppers. Certainly the tourist traps aren't worthy to be taken seriously. When do NOO YAWK's rags take the hint and stop running "theater" advertorials?